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Iran cracks down on reformist media
03Mar10 – 11:42 am
Liam Hodkinson: Iran’s media workers are facing a fresh assault from the authorities
Pakistan: journalists under pressure
13Nov09 – 5:51 pm
Matt Malone: in the country’s simmering civil conflicts, reporters are under pressure from all sides
Iran: more reporters held
23Jun09 – 5:02 pm
Journalists victims of the Tehran government’s crackdown
Foreign media crackdown in Iran
15Jun09 – 9:11 am
Jon Sawyer on the Iranian government’s censorship of journalists
Fiji media under fire
14Apr09 – 3:28 pm
Fijian media are facing huge pressure from the government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama. The constitution was suspended after the supreme court ruled on 9 April that the military-backed regime had taken power illegally. Foreign journalists, including ABC’s award-winning correspondent Sean Dorney, have been expelled from the country, and domestic outlets are under surveillance, with government [...]
Libel: today in parliament
24Mar09 – 4:20 pm
I’ve just got back from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee meeting on press standards, privacy and libel in Whitehall. The meeting was split into two sittings: the first with journalists, and the second with members of the Press Complaints Commission and the Press Standards Board of Finance. The journalists’ panel addressed an issue very [...]
Alexander Lebedev and the art of owning newspapers
15Jan09 – 2:09 pm
The UK press is buzzing with the news of Russian Alexander Lebedev’s takeover of London’s Evening Standard. So what can Standard staff expect? Abramovich-style injections of cash? Possibly not: less than two months ago, Novaya Gazeta, the Russian paper funded in large part by Lebedev, ditched a large number of staff and freelancers. Read Maria [...]
‘Any journalist who enters Gaza becomes a fig leaf and front for the Hamas terror organization’
07Jan09 – 12:55 pm
…so says Daniel Seaman of the Israeli government press office. Writing in the New York Times, Ethan Bronner postulates that this attitude may have its roots in Israel’s 2006 conflict with Hezbollah. Then, domestic and international journalists were given pretty much free reign, and now many in the IDF see this as a contributing factor [...]
Propaganda and censorship in Gaza
05Jan09 – 1:04 pm
Rachel Shabi in the Guardian points out the role of Israel’s recently-created National Information Directorate in the portrayal of the conflict in Gaza. The Directorate was set up after an inquiry in to the second Lebanon war in 2006, with the aim of co-ordinating the message going out to international media. But propaganda and censorship [...]